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Instruments of the Mars Global Surveyor Mission

It has been more than 30 years since America's first exploratory missions to Mars. Here are some of the instruments carried onboard Mars Global Surveyor (called MGS for short). Many of these instruments were inherited from the Mars Observer mission. These instruments are designed to study the weather and surface of Mars:

A camera to produce daily weather images
of Mars similar to weather photographs of the
Earth shown on the nightly news.

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